Chapter 13 QUESTION 4 Nonroutine organizations should adopt a(n) ______ structur

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Chapter 13

QUESTION 4

Nonroutine organizations should adopt a(n) ______ structure.

A) organic

B) inorganic

C) inhibitive

D) process

E) united

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QUESTION 5

Few organizations use growth as a measure of success.

True

False

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QUESTION 6

Clan is considered to be a type of corporate culture.

True

False

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QUESTION 7

The strength of an organization’s culture is based to some degree on the ____ of associates and managers.

A) homogeneity

B) heterogeneity

C) diversity

D) all of these

E) both heterogeneity and diversity

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QUESTION 8

Which of the following is an element of structure that addresses integration?

A) Slack resources

B) Self-contained tasks

C) Information technology

D) Lateral relations

E) All of these are correct

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QUESTION 9

The strength of an organization’s culture is based to some degree on the heterogeneity of associates and managers.

True

False

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QUESTION 10

Liaison roles are an example of an alternative lateral process.

True

False

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QUESTION 11

The existence of subcultures complicates the development and management of an organizational culture.

True

False

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QUESTION 12

Organizational ______ can be achieved through internal development or external acquisition.

A) success

B) growth

C) structure

D) integration

E) enrichment

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QUESTION 13

Formalization is the degree to which rules and operating procedures are documented on paper or in company intranets.

True

False

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QUESTION 14

Structural characteristics refer to the intangible soft properties that determine the basic shape of an organization's internal characteristics.

True

False

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QUESTION 15

The recent global economic recession has caused managerial spans of control to decrease.

True

False

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QUESTION 16

The creation of ________ resources reduces the need for interdepartmental information processing.

A) light

B) heavy

C) diversified

D) slack

E) both light and diversified

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QUESTION 17

Social dynamics refer to whether newcomers experience serial or disjunctive processes.

True

False

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QUESTION 18

Early definitions of technology related to manufacturing processes included all of the following production methods, EXCEPT:

A) small-batch

B) nonroutine

C) mass

D) continuous

E) all of these

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QUESTION 19

Engineering is one of the four types of technology.

True

False

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QUESTION 20

The text discusses ________ types of organizational culture.

A) two

B) three

C) four

D) five

E) six

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QUESTION 21

Strategy plays a(n) __________ role in organizational structure.

A) simple

B) important

C) diversified

D) weak

E) none of these

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QUESTION 22

______within a single product firm or a division of a larger firm must be integrated.

A) Centralized departments

B) Decentralized departments

C) Functional departments

D) all of these

E) none of these

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QUESTION 23

When standardization is high, managers and associates are expected to follow prearranged approaches to their work.

True

False

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QUESTION 24

Managers use ______ to monitor their organization’s current culture.

A) subcultures

B) cultural audits

C) discernment audits

D) credit audits

E) constructive audits

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QUESTION 25

All of the following are alternative lateral processes EXCEPT:

A) direct contact

B) task forces

C) teams

D) matrix designs

E) all of these are alternative processes

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A) organic

B) inorganic

C) inhibitive

D) process

E) united

Explanation / Answer

Answer 1.

Answer is A. Organic

An organization always make a structure that a mechanism and its allow to the managers to increase the efficiency by choose an organic and flexible structure.

Answer 2.

Answer is True, that few organizations use growth as a measure of success.

Because some organizations think that growth is the achievement point and they meet their success point.

Answer 3.

Answer Is False, that clan is considered to be a type of corporate culture.

Because there are two different things between clan and corporate culture, which is never consider as a same things.

Answer 4.

Answer is A, homogeneity

Because every organization culture based on some degrees those are similar or equal nature with other associate and managers.   

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